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OVERCROWDING.
18 cases of overcrowding have been detected during the
year. A caution to the employer has been found usually
sufficient to prevent a repetition of the offence, but one employer
was so persistent in her defiance of the law that she was twice
prosecuted and fined within six months. (See page 13).
COMPLAINTS.
94 complaints of nuisances said to exist in workshops have
been investigated. Many others relating to overtime have been
forwarded to H.M. Inspector of Factories.
PUBLIC CONVENIENCES.
In obedience to your instructions, I have, during the year,
continued my regular inspections of the Women's Public Conveniences
in the Borough. I have always found these places
clean and well-ordered ; those few improvements which I have
been able, from time to time, to suggest, have been sanctioned
by the Public Health Committee, and duly carried out.
CLERICAL WORK.
The clerical work in connection with my duties occupies
a considerable time daily. It includes the keeping of the detailed
Registers, the issuing of Registration Cards, and the sending
out of intimations of nuisances and letters. 266 intimations and
letters have been despatched during the year, and 27 statutory
notices for the abatement of nuisances have been served. Each
new workshop has been duly notified to H.M. Inspector of
Factories, as the Factory and Workshop Act of 1891 requires.
The names and addresses of homeworkers dwelling in other
boroughs have been forwarded to the proper quarter. Reports
have been made from time to time, and various necessary returns
have been kept. It was satisfactory to find St. Marylebone
especially mentioned in the Annual Report of the Chief
Inspector of Factories and Workshops, London, 1901, wherein
appears the following table: —